"As veteran gaming journalist Stephen Totilo reported in his Game File newsletter, Google's disastrous AI Overviews have been caught repeatedly giving terrible advice on "Trash Goblin," an indie game from the UK studio Spilt Milk, in which users play as a cute little goblin digging through trash to find shiny treasures that he cleans and sells in his shop."
"As Totilo notes, the goblin cleans his wares by chiseling away at them, which players simulate by clicking with their mouses. It's impossible to damage the trinkets during gameplay - but when the journalist asked Google whether such harm can occur, its AI Overviews told a big fat lie."
"From falsely claiming that 26-year-old indie artist MJ Lenderman has won 14 Grammys and suggesting that parents smear poop on balloons when potty-training their kids, to telling people to put glue on pizza and making up weird folk sayings, these error-laden AI summaries are often hilarious and nonsensical."
Google's AI Overviews have produced fabricated and misleading claims about gameplay mechanics, telling users that trinkets in Trash Goblin can be damaged when they cannot. The Overviews provided incorrect gameplay tips, falsely warning players to avoid breaking items that are not breakable. The system has also generated other clear falsehoods, including invented awards, bizarre parenting suggestions, and unsafe or nonsensical advice. These recurring hallucinations generate confusing, incorrect guidance for users and indicate significant reliability problems with automated AI summaries and tips.
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